Dave

I've got a feeling its a going to be a short lived romance. I may be wrong, but i cannot see it. How long does everyone feel this "pact" will last?

did anyone catch this Sky news tamtrum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XHuZqyuIS8

Adam Boultan wet himself i think... im sure some kebabs will calm him back down.

Canadians invent partially invisible armoured car.

Is anyone still shooting film?

I used to use film and i have to say its still better than digital. But when a memory card can fit so many on it - photography is now in the age tommy gun lazy arsed shooters. Its easy and i do it myself. Shame really

Canon Rebel XS which is called something else in europe. its great. easy to use, and great on power.

small b = bit

big B = byte

so theres 8 bits to the byte so 1MB = 8Mb

simples

So its as i thought they used to lowly bit to make the speed look faster to those not in the know. I mean it used to be a 56K modem but Kilobytes went out of fashion, the 2Mb broadband came in but whats that in kilobytes? it looks loads more but its 1024 bytes in a Kilobyte right? So 56k=57443bits , and 2Mb=1024x1024=about 18 times faster than dial up.? I knew that GCSE in computer studies would come in handy. These as every one knows are only best speeds. They never happen. Fibre optics the way ahead i hear.

One megabyte a second on a 100 megabit connection is very poor. As monsta says an 8mbit connections theoretical max would be around that. A lot depends on the line quality/length and other equipment in the system. a 100mbit FTTH (fibre to the home) connection would theoretically give a true 100mbit as it's not subject to line issues like copper... But you still have issues with other equipment in the chain like the host server etc

You know what maybe it was 10Mb line come to think of it. I thought it was rapid compared to what i was used to. God a 100Mb line would be to fast?? I mean you could fire live HD down it easy and the rest.! I suppose ?

State of the election promises so far:

NuLabour:

Near universal 2 Mbit/s by 2012

...and old grannies to be taxed on their fixed phone to pay for it.

Tories:

Near universal 100 Mbit/s by 2017

...and keep the Digital TV levy for another licencing round to pay for the fill-in.

Liberal Dems:

Still waiting for an exciting new proposal.

Maybe Vince to cable the country?

What's the BNP policy Monsta?

I had 100Mb/s in canada and it was great. it took well under 10 mins to download a 650MB file. I think it was aobut 8 minutes. It was registering over a Megabyte a second, Mb and MB confuse me

The Industrialization of Traffic: Why Bicycles are Faster than Cars

"The model American male devotes more than 1,600 hours a year to his car. He sits in it while it goes and while it stands idling. He parks it and searches for it. He earns the money to put down on it and to meet the monthly installments. He works to pay for gasoline, tolls, insurance, taxes, and tickets. He spends four of his sixteen waking hours on the road or gathering his resources for it."

"The model American puts in 1,600 hours to get 7,500 miles: less than five miles per hour. In countries deprived of a transportation industry, people manage to do the same, walking wherever they want to go, and they allocate only 3 to 8 per cent of their society's time budget to traffic instead of 28 per cent. What distinguishes the traffic in rich countries from the traffic in poor countries is not more mileage per hour of life-time for the majority, but more hours of compulsory consumption of high doses of energy, packaged and unequally distributed by the transportation industry."

"Man on a bicycle can go three or four times faster than the pedestrian, but uses five times less energy in the process. He carries one gram of his weight over a kilometer of flat road at an expense of only 0.15 calories. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well. The bicycle lifted man's auto-mobility into a new order, beyond which progress is theoretically not possible."

"Bicycles are not only thermodynamically efficient, they are also cheap. With his much lower salary, the Chinese acquires his durable bicycle in a fraction of the working hours an American devotes to the purchase of his obsolescent car. The cost of public utilities needed to facilitate bicycle traffic versus the price of an infrastructure tailored to high speeds is proportionately even less than the price differential of the vehicles used in the two systems."

Quoted fromf "Energy and Equity", Ivan Illich, 1978. Previously: Cars, out of the way. 

I was musing the other week., my cars computer said i averaged 23 mph over 1700 miles, now I thought, thats not much faster than a horse drawn carrage, perhaps. But then i thought of all the horses, all the looking after, driving to work over a big hill/mountain, and changed my mind. Bikes are better for short trips, and Im getting mine out. The UK should create more cycle paths, imagine if you could bike to newcastle without fear of getting squashed under a bus, would be great

Thats very sad news, R.I.P Joe

These are a few videos from an garage band called Relic that released a demo and played some gigs round bedlington on 1993-6.. you might see yourself on the vids from the Sun Inn,

I thought i was having a funny turn, but thats a snow effect- -yes its strange, we should get a rebait, i mean those facilities arent in walking distance.

What about the old maxi freeze building next to watsons like i said its only a suggestion i would rather a leisure centre but bedlington only ever get old peoples homes and more houses the best fast food in bedlington is the burger van that comes to the market which may i add is the only good thing about the market .

You must be a connoisseur of fast food/mystery meat in a bap.

Im sure there'll be one here soon, however now i think about it , the fact it doesnt have one of these places I see as a good thing, How subway ever became popular i'll never understand. I left the UK for 5-6 years late 90's and remember I thought Subway was tasteless Shi**. Now people'll drive 8 miles to have one?? Making a sarnie yourself was never that hard was it?

As Rob Brydon would say, it's just a bit of fun……….

If WDC was our council for say 35 years and we had about 10,000 households in Bedlingtonshire, the ones who would probably use a Bedlington leisure centre, and the rates (inc county ones) averaged about 500 quid a year what would be the total we had paid in?

£175,000000!

Still want to organise a whip round Dave?

I think I was being sarcastic ..

Shall we get a whip round going then

Dave,

Whilst I completely agree with your sentiments I think you have picked the wrong target for your ire. The recent work done at the Market Place derived from efforts by a community group whose only remit was to try for stuff like this. They had and have no legitimacy going after what we can all see as an abject lack of community facilities in the town. We now have another community group looking into that, lets hope they are as successful.

Merlin,

I read that article and shook my head as well, but I presume they are talking about our community centre being put on notice?

I like your last sentence and I think we, as a community, have been too re-active for too long, it's about time we became pro-active!

I remember a play park/basketball thing was built down from the pit heaps, if its still there, ive yet to see any kids using it, and no wonder - it was rubbish, who thought that would be a good idea, someone did. It wasnt , it was a half arsed attempt, spending a bit and then probably whinging that no one used it. If all the money thats been spent on pointless tat around Bedlington over the years the town could have had proper facilities years ago. Its a lack of ambition. I have no real hope that it will change,

No IMMAGINATION you're having a laugh, their imagination must be working treble time to run it at 78k (and thats minimum cost) when the place stands empty most of the time.

When it is under use, is it subsidised? If so to what extent? Something fishy going on here and it's not from Brians fish smoker either!

I see what you mean. Ive been thinking about Bedlington and its spending sprees on local " Community " projects. Like the rehashing of the market place 10 years or so after it was done the last time. Imagine if that cash would have been spent on something people might actually want, or something that might bring people into Bedlington - you know, the things we have to travel too, like swim , play five aside football, hockey - instead we have/had a community drinking hole, that was cheap but well thats about it. Just Imagine if Bedlington had something that Morpeth,Ashington crammlington didnt have! But now we've got some new seats and a paving slabs

If it was run correctly in the first place it would have been fine, but it was run by people with no imagination. 78K a year?

lol, we are skirting around the point and the answer is discipline.

i swear, if i catch any of my kids doing things like dropping litter right next to a bin, id kill the little !*!@# ...

Toby

Toby,,, your right theres no facilties in Bedlington , apart from the community centre which is just another drinking place really, I suggest you get a driving licence as soon as possible and leave,. I think this post was more concerned about the little Rat offspring who'd only pick a book up to hoi through your window

Ive said it before on here and ill say it again, these little bas***ds need sorting out, get a hold of the ring leader and administer some re education.

Happy Birthday hope you have a great day

Thanks Very much. 35 today, had to work till late as its the end of the season and all the vehicles are comin g off the area. but now its time for a beer!

Causes of anger - Lack of imagination

Lack of reason

Frustration

Lack of meaning

Lack of exercise

Too much LCL

Lack of control

Too much hot weather

and bad diet

Remember that flood Boscastle had in 2004 , the BBC made a right meal out of it. I thought the village female vicar was on for her own mini series about how the flood had effected her guitar noodling and the stress her dog was under... less than 12 months later Carlisle was smashed under 10 foot of water and it got 2 mins on the news if it was lucky... saying that like... it is a dump

"We're underdeveloped, we're ignorant, we're stupid, but we're happy."

Bedlington - Ex mining town, been suffering with an identity crisis for 25 years, needs TLC and a good clean. Has lovely wooded areas a golf course and a pit heap hill, lots of empty pubs ( a few nice ones ) and a massive cop shop and court with a chav factory as an annex. Its got a TESCOS

I like it